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Bursting with colour photographs, Growing and Knowing Flowering Bulbs has 187 pages of fascinating and helpful facts about flowering bulbs. Written by John Mason and Staff of ACS Distance Education, this e-book is a must have for horticultural students, garden designers, professional horticulturists or anyone who is simply passionate about bulbs.
Flowering bulbs are grown for use as a cut flower crop and used widely as a garden plant, for borders, bedding displays, in rockeries, meadows,woodlands and even as container plants.
Growing and Knowing Flowering Bulbs covers both true bulbs (i.e. Which are made up of scales); as well as corms, rhizomes and tubers which are commonly called bulbs, even though, scientifically speaking, they are not.
Bulbs are useful in any garden large or small – even a small balcony garden can have a display of bulbs each year in a single pot. Bulbs help to extend the flowering season or can be used as under-plants with roses or deciduous trees, or slower wakening herbaceous perennials to add interest to the garden in early spring, before leaves appear.
Contents
Chapter 1 Growing Bulbs
Planting bulbs
Fertilising bulbs
Why lift bulbs after flowering?
Dividing or separating bulbs and bulb-like plants
Three common bulb species to get you started
Chapter 2 What Bulb to Plant Where
Landscaping with bulbs
Bulbs for each season
Bulbs in sub-tropical and tropical areas
Bulbs for shade
Some scented bulbs and rhizomes
Chapter 3 Dictionary of Bulbs
Acis
Agapanthus
Albuca
Allium
Alstroemeria
Amaryllis
Androcymbium
Anemone
Anigozanthus
Babiana
Begonia (tuberous)
Blandfordia
Brodiaea
Calla
Chionodoxa
Clivia
Colchicum
Convallaria
Crinum
Crocosmia
Crocus
Cyclamen
Cyrtanthus
Dahlia
Daubenya
Dietes
Dipcadi
Endymion
Eranthis
Eucharis
Eucomis
Freesia
Fritillaria
Galanthus
Galtonia
Gladiolus
Gloriosa
Habranthus
Haemanthus
Hemerocallis
Hesperantha
Hippeastrum
Hyacinthoides
Hyacinthus
Ipheion
Iris
Ixia
Kniphofia
Lachenalia
Leucojum
Lilium
Lycoris
Miscanthus
Muscari
Narcissus
Neomarica
Nerine
Ornithogalum
Oxalis
Polianthes
Ranunculus
Roscoea
Schizostylis
Scilla
Sparaxis
Sprekelia
Sternbergia
Trillium
Triteleia
Tritonia
Tulipa
Vallota
Veltheimia
Watsonia
Zantedeschia
Zephyranthes
Appendix